Letter 9020: The Roman defender Romano is arriving to take up the management of the Syracusan patrimony [the church's estates in...
AD PETRUM IN SICILIA.
Romano Syracusani patrimonii regimen adeunti auzi-
lium ſerat.
Gregorius Petro Siciliensi.
Scientes devolionis affectum paternis commenda-
Eersr. X VIII [ AL. 47]. — * Hac epistola in Anglic.
Mss. et in plerisque non reperitur. Ex Vaticanis uni-
cus Cod. A eam exhibet. Exstat quoque in Remigiano,
uti cxeterz quz in aliis Codicibus desiderantur.
8.
EersT. XIX [Al. 18]. — * Deest etiam hc epist.
plurimis in Mss. Exstat in Remig., et Vatic. A.
In Remig., previderit injungenda, 8ine aliqua de-
beatis diſficu/tate obedientiam. Cui.
Evisr. XX [Al. 19]. — * Hec epist. cum tribus
vos sponte conlidimus, gloriz vesire in his ſayorem
nostris augere epistolis feslinemus. Indicamus itaque
Romano defensori latori pr:xsentium, patrimonium
Ecclesiz nostre, quod in Syracusanis, Catinensibus,
el vicinis Jocis noscitur esse constitutum, Dei prote-
gente gratia, credidisse. Et propterea salutanles pa-
terno affectu, petimus ut vestra eum ſovere providen-
lia debeatis, atque ei in omnibus vestrum , sicut de
vobis confidimus, auxilium commodetis; ut dum in
glorize veslrz s0Jatio vel ſavore subsidium consola-
lionis habuerit, et vos qualem circa nos charilatem
geritis, manifestius ostendatis, et nos voluntati
ves[re responiere, dum necesse ſuerit, per omuia
| festinemus.
dictione gubernationi tue previdimus committen- B
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